Recent content by superkdogg

UPDATE: I guess I'm gonna have to call it a fail. I get the exact same sort of graphical anomalies on Knoppix with the 4 cores enabled, regardless of clockspeed and voltages. I'll just have to settle for a $100 dual core doing 3.9 GHz on stock cooling--couldn't win the cores, but it's not a...

I just got a BE 550, MA770T, and 4 gb of ram for less than $250. It's totally not worth fighting to keep the 939 system alive. If you want to be really cheap about it, OC the hell out of your CPU-you might find it has decent headroom left but you aren't going to make a big dent without...

I've seen the clips break off too, but generally it was because the HS was not actually on the heatspreader but was hung up on the side of the plastic bracket and a little cockeyed. If it takes too much pressure to flip the clip, you're doing it wrong.

I would tend to agree with Bill that you could get away with mounting the rad at the back and having cool air come over it from outside and go right out the top. Push/pull shouldn't matter much if you have a decent fan and should matter even less if you're talking about outside air coming over...

So nobody else has seen anything like this? I actually kind of like that, because nobody else probably tried keeping the same installation of Windows while swapping motherboards and CPU brands, so maybe the reinstall will fix it. It's just so weird seeing all the rendering anomalies and no...

I got my 550 BE and MA770T-UD3P the other day and went to work on it last night. It came with Bios F4, and I later flashed to F3 but that didn't change the results. Here's the weird thing- With no unlock, everything is just fine-decent OC, nothing unusual. When I unlock, POST page shows the...

There may be 3rd party drivers that enable the full CCC options. Omega drivers used to be that way iirc, and there are still drivers like that for nV, but I'm not sure about more recent ATI drivers. If you find some, let me know, b/c my new lappy is begging for it with the 885g chipset...

I like my Equation RP-21's. Be aware that many/most good headphones can't be driven well by onboard sound because there's not enough power on the output. If you pick up a set and you don't have enough volume you'll need at least a seperate sound card and an amp is also an option. head-fi.org

Nice to see police thinking outside the box and taking a risk. It's a can't miss idea for good image and PR with young males which is who law enforcement really needs to get along with. I do worry about the 18 year old kid who can prove that his car is faster than any cop car then thinking...

Just different strokes I guess. Yeah, the fans will wear out sooner, but if they wear out before the video cards are outdated I'll be mad either way. The fan on my Geforce3 still works.... As for the noise, I play with headphones on. If a different person lets their things run hot because it...

Ahh, crap. The answer to my question is that the option is not available in XP. I didn't have SLI at the time and didn't pay attention to this nugget. Does anybody know if the hack around allowing 2 monitors via a third card works with a non-nvidia 3rd card? EDIT 2- OK, I now know that...

I'm wondering about this because last night I tried for about an hour to get my sli'd 9600gt's to work on my second monitor and could only get one screen at a time working but not both. My goal is to get one monitor for web browsing while the other is benefitting from the SLI for gaming...

It could be one of those TIM pads that are too thick and conduct like garbage to the point that they actually keep some heat in as opposed to conduct it to the HSF. We've all seen enough of those around. Think about the advice you give somebody about TIM application "it should be so thin that...

Yesterday, after doing nothing different than normal I tried to get on the internet and none of my machines would connect to the internet, but all had internal connectivity. When trying to get on the web, Chrome had a "Resolving Hosts" message in the lower left and then would direct me to the...

That attitude is not factually supported nor accurate. If you think that using fossil fuels as much as we want to is not going to cause problems and that it's for 'taxation and control of economies' you're not paying attention. Take global warming/greenhouse gasses and all that out of the...